(1) : to spring free from the ground or some other environing medium by the muscular action of the feet and legs or in some animals the tail : project oneself through the air : spring , leap , hop

a trout will jump several feet — John Burroughs

jumped on a moving bus

jumped out of bed

jumped down from the tree

also : to rise to one's feet with a bound or other energetic movement

jumped up and vigorously protested the chairman's action

(2) : to make a sudden spasmodic movement as a result of surprise or other nervous shock : start

jumped at his unexpected entry

(3) in board games : to move over a position occupied by an opponent's man to a vacant one beyond and capture the man (as in checkers) or to so move merely to facilitate progress to one's goal (as in Chinese checkers)

(4) : to pass over a regular or proper stopping point : skip

this typewriter jumps and needs repairing

(5) of a published item : to continue from one column or page to another

(6) : to undergo a vertical or lateral displacement owing to improper alignment of the film on a projector mechanism

images jump on the screen

(7) : to drop from an airborne airplane with a parachute

(8) : to commence or launch upon a drive, march, expedition, or other enterprise : start out : begin — used with off

the campaign jumped off to a good start

jumped off for the distant mining country

specifically : to start forward in a military attack

at 11:01 a.m. the assault companies jumped off — P.W.Thompson

the attack jumped off in good weather — Military Engineer

(9) : to move, obey, or act with energy or alacrity : hustle

when he spoke he expected people to jump — T.O.Thoman

said he wanted them to jump to it — Earle Birney

the first thing the new bureaucrat learns is this: when the phone rings — jump — Newsweek

2. : coincide , agree , accord — usually used with with

it jumps with my humor — Shakespeare

that choice jumps with the spirit of the age — J.C.Powys

3.

a.

(1) : to pass or move haphazardly or aimlessly from one thing or state to another : shift abruptly

the author jumps from region to region — Geographical Journal

jumping from job to job — Albert Deutsch

(2) : to change or abandon employment especially in violation of contract

jumped to the Mexican League … and drew a five-year ban — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News

jumped without notice — Fred Bradna & Hartzell Spence

(3) : to rise or climb abruptly from one rank, status, or condition to another often with omission of intermediate stages

jumped rapidly from captain through all the grades to colonel — H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker

jumped from the Stone Age to the Iron Age without any intervening copper or bronze culture period — R.W.Murray

(4) : to increase suddenly and sharply

recruiting began to jump that very evening — W.G.Shepherd

population is jumping — W.A.Bridges

(5) : to make a jump bid in bridge

b.

(1) : to make a judgment precipitately or without careful study of one's premises : make a mental leap

inclined to jump from some general observation to the first possible solution — W.J.Reilly

before you jump to that happy but unwarranted assumption — S.L.Payne

no impressionist who jumps hastily to conclusions — C.I.Glicksberg

(2) : to accept eagerly : take quick or immediate advantage — usually used with at

jumped at the job

jumped at the chance

(3) : to join, enter, or intervene with eagerness or alacrity — usually used with in or into

as unhealthy as if … the military jumped in, in the recognition that a literate and educated population was important for the quality of future draftees — R.L.Meier & Eugene Rabinowitch

jumped into this … business on twenty-four hour notice — F.D.Roosevelt

and in such phrases as jump aboard

finally jumped aboard bolshevism — A.M.Rosenthal

and jump on the bandwagon

exhibiting a desire to jump on the bandwagon — M.F.A.Montagu

4.

a. : to attack suddenly or without warning : pounce — often used with on or upon

jumped upon them without reason — Pasadena (Calif.) Independent

b. : to give a tongue-lashing : level severe criticism or censure

jumped all over me for it

— often used with on or upon

people who jump on modern poetry as obscure — Time

or in the phrase jump down one's throat

whenever I opened my mouth he jumps down my throat — W.S.Gilbert

5.

a. : swing

the jazz they do blow is interesting and jumps — Metronome Yearbook

whole thing jumps splendidly — Jazz Journal

b. : to be very lively : bustle with gaiety or activity

the joint was really jumping with kids — Maritta Wolff

the town was jumping — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News

the place is beginning to jump already — Chandler Brossard

Saturday night jumped — Langston Hughes

transitive verb

1.

a.

(1) : to pass over or across (a space or object) by or as if by a spring or leap : clear

jump a brook

jump a hurdle

took eight years before field trials jumped the Atlantic — W.F.Brown b. 1903

often jump the border again the same day — New York Times

(2) obsolete : to expose to danger : risk , hazard

jump a body with dangerous physic — Shakespeare

b. in board games : to move over (a man) by jumping

c.

(1) : to skip over or pass by : bypass

the transmission of certain characteristics may jump one or more … generations — Henry Wynmalen

jump electrical connections

(2) : to continue (as a newspaper story or article) from one column or page to another

(3) : anticipate

jump the green light

jump the gun

d.

(1) : to escape or run away from

couldn't jump his color — Thurston Scott

(2) : to abandon or leave especially hastily or furtively

jump town without paying their bills — Hamilton Basso

jumped their reservation and were on the warpath — P.A.Rollins

(3) : to leave (employment) especially in violation of contract or other obligation : breach (a labor contract) by leaving or taking other employment

draft-age men jumping essential war jobs — Newsweek

wanted to jump the show — Fred Bradna & Hartzell Spence

jumped ship and settled in the United States — David Dodge

jumped their indentures and bobbed up as journeymen in distant cities — Newsweek

jump contract when tempted by more money — Harriot B. Barbour

(4) : to turn off from (one's normal or appointed track or course)

streams that jumped their beds in the flood — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union

a train jumped the track

(5) : to get aboard typically by jumping

jumped a freight and rode it to town

jump a crowded bus — W.J.Finn

2.

a.

(1) : to attack suddenly or unexpectedly : pounce upon

thought he was snooping around and jumped him — Lillian Hellman

intended to jump him, sitting or no — Shelby Foote

suddenly jumped by an enemy patrol party — Ed Cunningham

specifically : to attack (a target) suddenly with military aircraft

(2) : to scold or criticize severely : assail verbally : bawl out

that she would never do … unless she were jumped into it — F.M.Ford

— often used with out

jumped the little foreman out — Ross Santee

went down to jump the inspector out — F.B.Gipson

b. : to seize or take possession of in violation of another's rights : occupy illegally

jump another man's claim

jumping an assignment for the first time in his life — Michael Foster

c. : to have coitus with — usually considered vulgar

3.

a.

(1) : to cause to jump

the wind can jump those flames one mile or five — Stirling Silliphant

it jumps me out of bed — J.W.Noble

had to jump her from the stiles — Jane Austen

(2) : to cause (game) to break cover : start , flush

jumped a mule deer — D.C.Peattie

(3) : to come upon suddenly

jumped the trail and took cover — H.L.Davis

b.

(1) : to elevate in rank especially by skipping intermediate ranks

one of many junior officers jumped several ranks to fill the void — Newsweek

jumped him from instructor to full professor in two years — Time

(2) : to raise (a bridge partner's bid) by more than one rank

(3) : to increase especially swiftly or sharply

jumped admission prices from fifty cents to a dollar — F.B.Gipson

4. : to bore with a jumper (as in quarrying)

Synonyms:

jump , leap , spring , bound , vault , and saltate mean, in common, to project oneself upward or through space by or as if by quick muscle action. jump , the most general, implies a muscular propelling, or any action resembling a muscular propelling, of the body upward or to a spot other than the one one is in, whether upward, on a level, or below one, or over some obstacle

jump with fright

jump three feet across a brook

jump up onto a platform

jump down from the truck

jump over a wall

leap , often interchangeable with jump , generally suggests a much greater muscular propulsion or a more spectacular result

leap a high fence

leap down from a platform

go leaping across a field

spring adds to jump or leap the idea of elasticity, lightness, or grace, stressing more the movement than the going to or over

(4) : the continuation of a published item (as a newspaper story or article) from one column or page to another ; also : the portion of a published item comprising such a continuation — compare breakover

e.

(1) : a quick or short journey especially by air : hop

reluctant to start a new round of … plane jumps — Newsweek

a convenient one-night jump from either St. Louis or Memphis — American Guide Series: Arkansas

(2) : one in a series of moves from one place to another

usually going farther west at each jump — Dixon Wecter

kept one jump ahead of the sheriff

4. : an advantage especially in time : start — usually used in the phrase get the jump

might get the jump on the United States in the development of nuclear power — New York Times

desirous of getting the jump on the competition — Elmer Davis

Synonyms:

jump , leap , spring , bound , and vault signify a single movement achieved by the corresponding action signified by the verb. saltation may indicate a sequence or group of such actions

Synonym: see in addition jump I.

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- on the jump

IV. adjective

Etymology: probably from jump (II)

1. obsolete : exact , fitting , precise

2. : constituting a jump bid in bridge

jump response

3. : swing

a jump band

V. ˈju̇mp, ˈjəmp noun

( -s )

Etymology: probably alteration of jupe

1. dialect Britain : a loose jacket for men

2. dialect Britain : an underbodice worn usually instead of stays by women — usually used in plural

VI. intransitive verb

: to go from one sequence of instructions in a computer program to another

jump to a subroutine

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- jump ship

VII. noun

1. : a transfer from one sequence of instructions in a computer program to a different sequence

conditional jump

2. : jazz music with a fast tempo

Webster's New International English Dictionary.Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.2012